[ad_1] Marines deploying to Asia for recent exercises learned to hide their command posts using local cell phone networks and other commercial tech, part of a growing push within the military to adapt to modern battlefields.  The Marines’ command posts, whose tell-tale radio emissions could give away their position to an enemy, were able to ...

[ad_1] Army aviators juggle a lot of information to make sure their helicopters are ready to fight. So the 4th Combat Aviation Brigade recently coded up a tool to help. “They’ve got a maintenance program of record that gives them good information. They’ve got the mission program of record that tells them what they’re supposed ...

[ad_1] Twenty million dollars doesn’t usually change much in the U.S. military, but lawmakers hope it’s enough to usher the Pentagon’s irregular-warfare efforts into a new era.  A provision in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act provides $20 million and “funding authority, direction, definition, and Congressional reporting requirements to make permanent SOF’s ability to conduct ...

[ad_1] Reagan who? Ukraine’s president visited American troops on Monday to invoke former President Ronald Reagan, but his visit comes at a time when Republicans in congress seem farther from Reagan-era U.S. foreign policy than perhaps ever before.  “The world really did change after [the Berlin] Wall came down, starting a new era,” President Volodymir ...

[ad_1] The Pentagon is preparing to ask Congress to approve spending $1 billion to replace weapons sent to Ukraine, a request that will essentially exhaust the “drawdown account” of funds available to replenish U.S. stockpiles. “I don’t believe the final $1 billion request has quite gone over yet, but it’s, I believe, very close to ...

[ad_1] ABOARD HMS PRINCE OF WALES — Supporting Ukraine has led to a sharp increase in the British military’s technological capabilities, thanks to captured Russian technology and Ukrainians’ battlefield observations, Britain’s armed forces minister said.  Costly experience and the acid tests of combat have brought about an “incredible acceleration in Western military capability,” James Heappey said ...

[ad_1] DILLINGHAM AIRFIELD, Hawaii—Capt. Sam Soliday is standing in front of a Black Hawk on a gravel airstrip across the street from Oahu’s picturesque northwest coast, a “jungle” patch velcroed to the sleeve of his combat shirt. He’s one of more than 5,000 U.S, Indonesian, Thai, British, and New Zealander troops spread out on islands ...

[ad_1] For some foreigners who rushed to Ukraine in the early days of the war, what might happen if they were wounded in battle was a question they’d figure out later.  “A lot of times we didn’t even know where the stabilization point was,” said David Bramlette, a former U.S. Army Green Beret who led ...